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Category Archives: Directive

As aficionados of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) will tell you, it’s rare that the full judgement of the court does not follow the opinion of the Advocate General, but Mark Alemo-Herron and Others v Parkwood Leisure Ltd is just such a case. The icing on the cake is that the court held that…

Implementation of the Agency Workers Directive has been in the pipeline for years. After several delays, the UK Regulations which enact the requirements of the Directive finally come into force on 1 October. But what do they mean in practice for employers?

An interesting discussion has emerged on the web about employment issues arising from the sudden closure by News International of the News of the World. It is a central tenet of employment law that contract terms can be both express (i.e. written in to a contract) and implied. Some key duties, such as a duty…

As is well known, with effect from 1 October 2011 new regulations come into force to prevent discrimination against agency supplied temporary workers. Under the Regulations agency workers will be entitled to the same basic treatment as directly employed workers once they have completed a qualifying period of 12 weeks in a particular job. This…